Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction and fantasy and

staying on the same page. In this year's marriage, I'm one of your incredible

co-hosts, Amber Wallen. I'm Benny. Oh, I was Bitty now. I'm Ben. I'm Bitty. No one calls me Benny.

Well, let me ask you, Benny, Benny, how does it feel to play video games for

hours and ignore your amazing family? That sounds like a trick question. Right. I'm

gonna guess that that's Bitty and that new persona because... Benny, please. That's exactly

what you did all last night. Oh, Benny plays lots of video games. Okay, so that's

something I just have to deal with with this new persona. You know, that video

game there's has been making me actually think a lot about what we're gonna

discuss today. I want to tell fans also who are at home ignoring their

partners what game you're playing, maybe though. Sure, yeah. I understand you a

little bit. Yeah, I'm playing a game called Mass Effect and in the game there's a

character who has lived for millennia or millennium and he's a Krogan, which

they're like a warrior alien group of aliens and one of the characters have

lived for a very, very long time. Actually, a couple of them and it's been

making me think a lot of my own mortality because in the video game, you also

travel to across like different solar systems. This one, it takes place in the

grand and drameda system and I've been thinking a lot about my mortality because

I won't see any of those things. I'm not gonna live in millennium. And so the

game is very cerebral. It really makes you reflect and think and sometimes that

reflecting and thinking could last, you know, two hours, three hours. Yeah, it's quite

many hours while you're exploring the galaxy. Time and space is bent here and

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